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My buddy Susan Davis tagged me for this meme over on Facebook…and I do whatever she tells me, so:

Rules:Once you’ve been tagged (and please consider yourself tagged if you’re reading this), you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you (please feel free post your list in the comments section if you don’t blog yourself). At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged (if you want to). You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

1. Earl Gray tea and cilantro taste soapy to me.2. My favorite song is “Please Mr. Postman.”3. I didn’t rebel against my mother till my 30s. Fortunately for both of us, I’m over it now.4. I have a lot of Jewish friends.5. I have uncanny intuition.6. I have profound respect and admiration for the person my 14 year-old-daughter is becoming. 7. I was not a dog person before Goose.8. According to my husband, I don’t know how to properly make a bed.9. I don’t like being around drunk people. Tipsy people are okay.10. I’d be fine with canceling our cable TV package, but not DSL.11. I love road trips and hotel toiletries.12. I’m embarrassed that I’ve never been to Paris.13. I’m tougher than I look.14. I thrive on creative collaboration.15. My favorite color is green.16. My cooking is getting better.17. I can’t believe it took me so long to discover Pilates.18. I prefer to be blond.19. I like handmade textures.20. I wish I had nicer handwriting.21. I’m a terrible speller.22. I swear by Dr. Sarno’s The Mindbody Prescription.23. I generally get what I want and when I don’t, it’s almost always for the best.24. I have two, maybe three, dead brothers.25. I’m an optimist.

This meme comes by way of Ericka Lutz. It’s called “The Power of Ten” and I tag you.

Ten Years AgoWe were living in a rented casita in Corralejo, a dusty village located in the countryside outside of San Miguel. Our little house had a cactus fence around it and brick boveda domed ceilings. Annalena was three and attending a Mexican Montessori preschool. My father had just recently passed away. I spent a lot of time staring at the mountains and listening to Junior Walker.

Ten Months AgoLast August I was in the homestretch of the BTF season. I enjoyed seeing Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

Ten Days AgoI was wrangling actor bios for the program.

Ten Hours AgoI was finishing up a magazine assignment about Canyon Ranch. I did not write about stumbling upon Cameron Diaz in the locker room.

Ten Minutes AgoI was writing my mother an e-mail about yesterday’s lovely lunch with a new friend at Blue Ribbon Sushi

Ten Minutes from NowI will eat some low-fat dulce de leche Häagen-Dazs.

Ten Hours from NowI’ll be at the office.

Ten Days from NowI will be researching an article about breathing rituals. I will also likely be stressed out of my mind at work.

Ten Months from NowI hope I’ll be writing a new book.

Ten Years from NowI do have long-term wishes, but feel too superstitious to share them here.

3. What’s my favorite CD? I don’t have a favorite CD. Husband and daughter dominate the airwaves in my household.

4. Favorite colour(s)? Robin’s egg blue and wasabi.

5. Does my home have an attic? No, but there’s a crawlspace that I haven’t seen.

6. Have I ever been to Canada? Yes — on assignment to Vancouver Island (Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, the rare luxury hotel experience, in this case $1000-night tents, that I’d pay to return to, if I had the money)and accidentally once when I overshot Vermont on the way to Bread and Puppet Theater.

7. Have I ever gone fishing? Camp Unalayee (the backpacking camp’s official site seems to be down today — here’s another link about it) in the Trinity Alps when I was 13.